Elonka wrote:
From Wikipedia's newest articles:
* ...that the Mosque of Amr" in Fustat, originally built in 642 CE, was the first mosque ever built in Egypt?
Cool.
When not following Virgil's latest press , my current hobby has been writing Wikipedia articles on medieval Egyptian history. One of the articles I just created a few days ago, on the Mosque of Amr, was considered to have an interesting factoid (first mosque built in Egypt) and got listed in the "Do you know" section on the Main Page today (August 22, 2007). It's a nice bit of recognition. :) I also wrote about 90% of the article on Fustat, which has a pretty interesting story too.
I'm also looking forward to October 13, when an article that I put a *lot* of work into, will be listed as "Today's Featured Article" on the Wikipedia mainpage. FAs are a powerful status indicator in the culture of Wikipedians, and I'm pretty proud of this one. I'm also proud of the date that I requested. It means that an article I put a lot of work into, on the Knights Templar will be featured on the mainpage of Wikipedia on October 13, 2007, which will be the 700-year anniversary of 10/13/1307, the famous date (no, not the origin of the Friday the 13th legend) that King Philip IV of France simultaneously had many Templars arrested and tried for heresy. For more details, read the article. ;)
I also *may* be giving a talk on the Knights Templar at Dragon*Con. We'll see! :)
Elonka :)
Interesting. 10/13/2001 was the first Tool concert I went to, and at least one of the members of the band is heavy into the Knights of The Templar stuff.
